The world tells you the good news first then disappoints you with bad news. Though my title is in this earthly style, I prefer the style of the holy writings. They tell you the bad first, then the good. The Ugly: The U.S. regime’s new agreement with the Cuban regime includes an expansion of the Drug War and State solutions to the environment. There is nothing I can say about the ills of the Drug War that has not already been said by more well-informed writers. It’s ugly. Libertarians should not ignore the problems of the environment, but they are not...

The words ophthalmologist and optometrist are in my diction, but the accessibility of the term eye doctor seems more apropos for a title that I pray you share. The libertarian tradition is that grand tale of power versus the market. We are the market, and this battle takes the largest toll on the least (financially speaking) of our brethren and sistren, the poor. When it comes to eyesight improvement, we are talking about a major function of everyday life. Licenses for eye doctors hurt the poor. Yesterday I went to my eye doctor’s office. I spent five minute waiting for...

Amir Taaki is mostly known for founding DarkWallet and DarkMarket (now OpenBazaar). He has his faults, like all of us, but he's brilliant. Listening to him talk, especially if he's with Cody Wilson, is an intellectual treat. DarkWallet lets you hide your consensual Bitcoin exchanges, and OpenBazaar is a P2P marketplace for everything. The State's days are truly numbered. Listening to Taaki, I see some similar influences that I have. I came to liberty from the left. Liberty is more left, if left and right mean anything, but I mean I grew up an anti-authoritarian Democrat. A Jeremy Scahill if...

There are not a lot of black faces in the liberty movement. Yes, I know who Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams are. There are not enough. Accept that, and let's move on. I am one of these faces. When ethnic tensions rise over social media, and this has happened frequently in the past couple of years, it is due to State power smashing against black men and women. Black communities and their allies are outraged with the State, and some normally liberty minded folk strangely argue the merits and defend the State. Don't defend the State. Focus the anger of...

Welcome to the wonderful world of entertainment Where art, imitate, life and people get famous Jurassic 5's Quality Control was my first hip-hop album. There was a time when mainstream hip-hop was subversive, and even today there are subversive emcees. Immortal Technique and Lowkey come to mind first, but there are plenty out there. Art imitates life. I believe it, and so should you. http://theantimedia.org/mockingjay-banned-in-thai-theaters-after-inspiring-real-life-dissent/ Read that link. Thai student groups distribute free tickets to go watch the new Hunger Games film with the contingency that consumers consider the similarities betwixt the current Thai regime and the fictional regime from...

The conforming nonconformist anarchists have let their voices be heard all across the nether regions of the internets. For a gaggle of atheists they sure do religiously chant “Don’t vote!” and mockingly #VoteHarder . Regarding the moral reprehension of voting for any ‘representatives’ and senators in CA, I agree. Regarding judges, I have not read enough about them to make any informed decisions. But, and I mean the most gargantuan but possible, voting on measures can affect change that lovers of liberty want to see in the world. Do you want the prison industrial complex reduced? Do you want theft...

The future of liberty is absolutely luminous. Without trying to convince legislatures that we should have consensual courts, 100% arbitrability is the pot and soil from which our new world of appropriate dispute resolution shall blossom, and like the Venus flytrap that it is, mercilessly swallow the existing corporate-capitalist structure whole.

CITIZENFOUR is Edward Snowden. The NSA & Snowden are respectively like Tom and Jerry. Do you remember who won? The Bad: When you use the Caps Lock key we know to listen to you attentively. This is because of the time-tested axiom that shouting wins all arguments at all times and in all places. Like the all-caps of the title, anti-authoritarian Pulitzer Prize winning director Laura Poitras' documentary CITIZENFOUR has a whiff of blemishes. There are a dab of scenes of the NSA's coercively sustained lands shot at night with the most dire-sounding background music this side of the Mississippi...

An Interview with Justin Simien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7uqgubcivY Introduction Justin Simien is the man behind Dear White People. It's the movie for the subaltern within the intelligentsia. Simien wants to start a conversation, and he has, to publicize the normally private ethnic, intellectual and sexual prejudices that people hold. With friends, family and strangers I was choppin' it up on premier night, in Century City, with the cast literally steps away (welcome to L.A.). Kudos Mr. Simien, your plan worked. Everything we see is colored by the lenses we wear. It doesn't matter if you don't have a prescription (a well-thought-out and...

Jeff Riggenbach, with the precision of a neurosurgeon, tells us who is on the Left and who is on the Right, and why it all matters. His book, from 2009, is Why American History is Not What They Say: an Introduction to Revisionism. Revisionism is the editing of history according to more recently found knowledge, or a reassessment of the knowledge previously interpreted. Riggenbach tells us that most historical accounts are apologetics for the corporate-capitalist ruling power of the status-quo by authors that are nothing more than “court historians”. For this reason, he seeks, and wants you to seek, an analysis...